Aha, I need to pay more attention to the OSGi blogs.
Thanks Markus.
> On 29 Feb 2016, at 17:20, Markus Rathgeb <maggu2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FYI
>
> "But what if you want to use the APIs at runtime? To support using the
> APIs at runtime, OSGi has now made the companion code for individual
> specifications available as individual companion code bundles."
> http://blog.osgi.org/2015/08/more-jars-on-maven-central-and-jcenter.html
>
> 2016-02-29 8:40 GMT+01:00 Achim Nierbeck <bcanh...@googlemail.com>:
>> Hi
>>
>> it's a bad practice to provide the compendium or core osgi bundles, as those
>> contain far more packages then required.
>> Usually the services implementing those apis should provide the implemented
>> services. As can be seen for eventadmin,
>> configuration admin service and the http service in karaf.
>>
>> regards, Achim
>>
>>
>> 2016-02-28 22:15 GMT+01:00 Daniel McGreal <d.j.mcgr...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi Karaf users!
>>>
>>> Installing the Compendium in a feature, e.g. with the following primitive
>>> example, restarts the console, because dependent bundles refresh to wire
>>> against it.
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
>>> <features xmlns="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/features/v1.3.0";
>>> name="cmpn">
>>> <feature name="cmpn" description="cmpn"
>>> version="2.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT">
>>> <bundle>mvn:org.osgi/org.osgi.compendium/5.0.0</bundle>
>>> </feature>
>>> </features>
>>>
>>> This is causing me some problems, for example, after the shell restart
>>> feature:(un)install commands result in an NPE.
>>>
>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>> at
>>> org.apache.karaf.features.internal.region.SubsystemResolver.resolve(SubsystemResolver.java:216)[9:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.4]
>>> at
>>> org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:263)[9:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.4]
>>> at
>>> org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.FeaturesServiceImpl.doProvision(FeaturesServiceImpl.java:1089)[9:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.4]
>>> at
>>> org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.FeaturesServiceImpl$1.call(FeaturesServiceImpl.java:985)[9:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.4]
>>> at
>>> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)[:1.8.0_60]
>>> at
>>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)[:1.8.0_60]
>>> at
>>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)[:1.8.0_60]
>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)[:1.8.0_60]
>>>
>>> Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
>>>
>>> Best, Dan.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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